FY 2024 Advanced Technical Training for Faculty and Staff for Laboratory Animals was held at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine Animal Experimentation Facility from Oct. 22 to 25 under the auspices of the Japanese Association of Laboratory Animal Facilities of National University Corporations. Theme: “Advanced technical training in reproductive technology for laboratory animals other than mice” Dr. Atsuo OGURA gave a lecture. Title: “Reproductive engineering techniques in the golden hamster”

Training course for cryopreservation of mouse sperm and embryos　 ~ Efficient superovulation method, point to improve fertilization and litter size rates ~

The 117th The Society for Reproduction and Development (JSD) Meeting was held at Nagoya University (Aichi Pref.) from Sep.22 to 25. The following people gave lectures and presentations. *Educational Lectures* Atsuo OGURA: Developmental Engineering Technology to Support Reproductive Biology Research *Publicly solicited symposium* SRD-JSPS/ILR-Joint Symposium “Cutting edge-technologies for animal reproduction” Kimiko INOUE: Development of inter(sub)species somatic cell nuclear transfer techniques for preservation of valuable wild-derived mouse genetic resources *Poster Presentation* Shogo MATOBA: Multiplex analysis of genes encoding the SNAT family of amino acid transporters expressed in the placenta Syun TOKITA: Identification of genes responsible for placental enlargement in intersubspecies hybrid mice generated by intracytoplasmic sperm injection Ayumi HAEGAWA: Cryopreservation of […]

Mr. Ken Kojima from the Tokyo Medical University Pre-clinical Research Center came to BRC to practice thawing frozen embryos. Now we can leave the thawing of frozen embryos to him at his center.

A tour of RIKEN Tsukuba branch was held for new administrative staff to be employed. They watched “real” mouse IVF and fertilized embryos in our lab.

RIKEN Summer School 2024 was held at Kobe Convention Center (Kobe, Hyogo) on Sep. 2-3. Three members of our lab gave poster presentations. *Poster Presentations* Takateru TATEBE: Analysis of autophagy degradation systems in SCNT embryos Syun TOKITA: Identification of genes responsible for placental enlargement in intersubspecies hybrid mice generated by intracytoplasmic sperm injection Dinh Quoc PHAM: High cleavage rate and developmental efficiency of mouse embryos cloned from embryonic stem cells

Dr. Sayaka Wakayama and two students from the University of Yamanashi visited Tsukuba on 30 July to share the cryopreservation technology they are jointly developing. We hope that this will help us to make progress with our new space experiment project.

The 170th RIKEN BRC Seminar was held at the RIKEN BioResource Research Center and online (Zoom). Dr. Dr. Chong Li Associate Professor, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University Title: Studies on histone modifications in somatic cell cloned embryos